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2020 General Election - Our First Poll

If the 2020 Election Was Today, Which Issues(plural) Would Determine Your Vote?

  • Partisanship - Stopping the other "team"

    Votes: 19 30.6%

  • The Economy

    Votes: 22 35.5%

  • The Mueller Report

    Votes: 14 22.6%

  • Healthcare

    Votes: 38 61.3%

  • Immigration

    Votes: 19 30.6%

  • Shaking Up the Establishment (d.b.a. "drain the swamp")

    Votes: 4 6.5%

  • Controlling the Supreme Court

    Votes: 25 40.3%

  • Bringing God Back to Government - Getting God Out of Government

    Votes: 5 8.1%

  • LGBTQ rights and treatment under the law

    Votes: 19 30.6%

  • Other (please specify in a post)

    Votes: 13 21.0%

  • On Planet X All We Care About Is Who Can Bake A Cherry Pie

    Votes: 8 12.9%
  • Total voters
    62
  • Poll closed .

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There will be no transparency so the poll is as anonymous as we can make it. The question is NOT what you forecast will be the issues come election time but what you see as the important issues right now.

Multiple choices allowed to get a better feel for what the overall concerns of members are.

The choices - as neutrally worded as possible:

WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES IN THE COMING 2020 ELECTION

> Partisanship - Stopping the other "team"
> The Economy
> The Mueller Report
> Healthcare
> Immigration
> Shaking Up the Establishment (d.b.a. "drain the swamp")
> Controlling the Supreme Court
> Bringing God Back to Government - Getting God Out of Government
> LGBTQ rights and treatment under the law
> Other (please specify)
> On Planet X All We Care About Is Who Can Bake A Cherry Pie

I will leave the poll open for a month. Hopefully we get a large enough statistical sampling that it means something (for certain definitions of "means").

Remember - Multiple Selections Are Encouraged. We can't give you "weighting" because the forum software only allows Select / Don't Select.

I'll try to repost the poll periodically to see trends. I know the forum tends to trend "liberal", so that should be taken into account, ultimately. But that's why the choices are as neutral as I could make them. Whether you're for or against a certain stand on, say, "Healthcare" is not important. It's important whether that issue is going to be your driver when deciding how to vote.

Feel free to commence with the usual bickering, but do try to keep to the topic of the thread, which is not the various approaches to the issues but WHETHER OR NOT YOU FEEL THE ISSUES WILL BE THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN HOW YOU VOTE (or would vote if you're not an American).
 
Economy
Healthcare
other: nuclear power
Education : skepticism in schools; get God out, get James Randi in
 
My one and only criteria is that the candidate I vote for won't be named Trump.
To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
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I don’t know if this counts as “Other” or a subset of “Economy”, but I clicked both. One of the bigger issues for me is the weakening middle class. Obama at least attempted to help that problem with the ACA. Trump appears to be doing everything in his power, and a few things that might not be, to cripple the middle and lower classes even more.
 
Supreme Court.

As of right now everything Trump has done can be undone almost as quickly as he's done it. So much of what he's done has been through Executive Orders the next President can basically undue his Presidency in an afternoon.

But Supreme Court Justices? And younger (relatively speaking) ones at that? That's a long, long, long term major measurable effect kind of thing. And getting rid of a Supreme Court Justice is really, really uncharted territory so I'd wager anyone on there is gonna stay.

Ginsberg is not going to last forever and none of them are spring chickens and right now the only thing saving us from a total Conservative controlled court is Roberts occasionally breaking from the herd and just the general fact that before the last couple of appointments the SCOTUS Judges were the least partisan members of high government. One more Kavanaugh or Goursch and that's it. We've basically established a Conservative Theocracy for the rest of most of our lives.
 
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Belz... said:
Can I vote on the poll even though I can't vote in the US?
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See final paragraph of OP.

Feel free to commence with the usual bickering, but do try to keep to the topic of the thread, which is not the various approaches to the issues but WHETHER OR NOT YOU FEEL THE ISSUES WILL BE THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN HOW YOU VOTE (or would vote if you're not an American).
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Craig4 said:
My one and only criteria is that the candidate I vote for won't be named Trump.
To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
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I like your honesty, but perhaps you should consider how productive Ahab's obsession turned out to be.
 
Ziggurat said:
I like your honesty, but perhaps you should consider how productive Ahab's obsession turned out to be.
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Somebody got a book deal out of it, at least. These days such events would launch Ishmael into celebrity as a social media influencer, talk show host, and inevitably a run for political office. And perhaps a fashion line or theme restaurant chain if that didn't work out. If you really think about it Ahab lucked out by being killed before modernity hit.
 
Corruption - As in the current injustice in prosecution, convictions, sentencing both for white collar and all other crimes.

Healthcare - Medicare for all or something similar

Economy - Wealth inequality and the coming AI/Automation revolution. Need to look at and or implement higher taxes on the wealthy and universal basic income.

Other - Fixing our election system such as gerrymandering, implementing a STAR voting system and fixing the insane influence of money in politics. Also climate change

Other issues listed in the poll are also important but I did not select them because I wanted to focus on just the most important issues at the moment and most likely to influence my vote.
 
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Ziggurat said:
I like your honesty, but perhaps you should consider how productive Ahab's obsession turned out to be.
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The guy had nothing to lose. He was a peg-legged old fart. Chasing the whale at least gave the old fart something to do.
 
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